A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

For instance, I’m always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

I love to watch videos, and I’ve always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Think off-center.

History is more or less bunk.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.